The delegation learned about the industrial development of Mile City in the Mile City Industrial Park. Photo by correspondent Liu Lingling
Following the footsteps of spring, the "Thousands of Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Travel to Yunnan" (2024) event has arrived as scheduled. From March 29 to April 2, more than 130 Hong Kong entrepreneurs, experts, scholars, and representatives of institutions and associations gathered in Spring City to carry out in-depth inspections and negotiations around the theme of "Gathering Together and Seeking Common Development". Strengthening consensus, cohesion, increasing motivation, and seeking the future... the activities have achieved a series of fruitful results, giving wings to take-off for deepening exchanges and cooperation between Yunnan and Hong Kong.
Crossing the mountains and seas in both directions to
On a spring day in Yunling, everything revives, vegetation begins to sprout, and the picturesque scenery is filled with infinite vitality and vitality. Facing the hope of spring, the "Thousands of Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Travel to Yunnan" (2024) event hosted by the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference was successfully held. Yunnan and Hong Kong once again joined hands and started a two-way journey spanning thousands of miles.
This is a spring appointment to continue the friendship between Yunnan and Hong Kong and go to the mountains and seas together -
In March 2023, the Provincial Political Consultative Conference officially launched the "Thousands of Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Travel to Yunnan" event and decided to use five years to organize and invite 1,000 Several Hong Kong entrepreneurs went to Yunnan for inspection. Over the past year, 9 batches of 248 Hong Kong entrepreneurs have visited Yunnan, promoting a group of Hong Kong enterprises to sign agreements with relevant parties in Yunnan to reach cooperation intentions, accelerating the implementation of a group of Yunnan-Hong Kong cooperation projects, and promoting the success of a number of high-quality Yunnan products. Entering the Hong Kong market has continued to write a new chapter in the cooperation between Yunnan and Hong Kong.
This is an interactive journey to deepen and expand exchanges between Yunnan and Hong Kong, promote cooperation and win-win development -
Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Leung Chun-ying led Hong Kong delegations from all walks of life to participate in the event, and discussed trade services and logistics with representatives from relevant Yunnan departments and enterprises. Conduct two-way exchanges on the export of agricultural products (food/fruit), tourism industry planning, brand and graphic design, inspection, testing and certification services, and development of the traditional Chinese medicine industry, and conduct in-depth field visits in Kunming, Qujing, Wenshan, Honghe, Pu'er, and Xishuangbanna to enhance understanding , learn from each other’s strengths and seek cooperation and development.
This is an active exploration of the CPPCC at all levels, with the support of the party committee and the government, and the "drama" of all parties in Yunnan and Hong Kong -
With the support of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the provincial government, the provincial CPPCC cleverly leveraged the strength of the CPPCC National Committee to widely borrow the province's With the help of external forces from departments at all levels, the Yunnan CPPCC has made good use of the efforts of the state, city, and county CPPCC to organize this event and build a communication platform and provide cooperation opportunities for Yunnan and Hong Kong. It has also gathered a powerful force to publicize and promote Yunnan, tell the story of Yunnan well, and promote the high-quality leap-forward development of Yunnan.
In a few days, the two sides of Yunnan and Hong Kong carried out two-way exchanges, enhanced understanding, docked required strengths, and looked for cooperation opportunities, helping the exchanges and cooperation between Yunnan and Hong Kong in the new era to reach a new level and achieve new progress.
"Although Hong Kong and Yunnan are thousands of miles apart, the love, popularity and business relationship between the two places have a long history and will last forever." Provincial Party Committee Secretary Wang Ning said at the opening ceremony that Yunnan is willing to work with Hong Kong to firmly grasp the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" ", the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and Pan-Pearl River Delta regional cooperation and other major opportunities, deepen practical cooperation in various fields, and let the "Pearl of the Orient" and the "Pearl of the Plateau" interpret a new "perfect combination".
Complementing advantages and seeking common development
Yunnan is my country’s gateway to South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean Rim; Hong Kong is a world-famous free trade port, an important international financial center, Yunnan’s largest source of foreign investment and an important trading partner. How to deepen the economic and trade cooperation between Yunnan and Hong Kong and promote Yunnan products and Yunnan enterprises to "go global" with the help of Hong Kong platform?
During the event, Hong Kong entrepreneurs and the Yunnan delegation visited Kunming, Qujing, Wenshan, Honghe, Pu'er, Xishuangbanna and other places to see development, visit enterprises, and plan for the future, so as to build bridges and work together to deepen Yunnan-Hong Kong cooperation.
This is not only a hand in hand with paths and goals, but also a win-win move to promote the east and west to a higher level and deeper cooperation. As the investigation deepened, Hong Kong entrepreneurs were deeply attracted by Yunnan, an investment hotspot.
The 2,300-kilometer-long Pearl River closely links Yunnan and Hong Kong, composing a generation-to-generation friendship spanning mountains and seas. Walking into the source of the Pearl River located in Zhanyi District, Qujing City, the delegation marveled at the beautiful lakes and mountains in front of them, and at the same time had a strong impression of Qujing City's rich tourism resources integrating mountains, rivers, lakes, wetlands, caves, alpine pastures and other natural forms. interest.
"In Hong Kong, I often walked along the Pearl River, feeling the breeze on my face and listening to the gurgling water. Now that I meet the source of the Pearl River in Yunnan, my heart is surging." said Zhen Jingye, creative director of Bai Zhong Entertainment Co., Ltd. He hopes to open a special tourist line from Hong Kong to the source of the Pearl River so that more Hong Kong people can visit here. Entrepreneurs have also proposed that Yunnan should introduce Hong Kong's advanced tourism models and concepts, accelerate the development of new tourism formats and products such as health care, self-driving, sports, study, farming experience, RV camping, etc., and work together to build a tourism industry for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Bilateral and multilateral regional tourism cooperation formats in the region.
A hundred years ago, a coffee seedling took root in Yunnan. A hundred years later, the coffee industry is booming in Yunnan. Sitting in the rest area of Pu'er International Coffee Trading Center, the delegation listened to the story of "coffee in the left hand and tea in the right hand" while immersed in the mellow aroma of Pu'er coffee.
"In Hong Kong, drinking coffee is a very daily and comfortable way of life. The demand for coffee in the Hong Kong market is huge, but currently there is no coffee from Yunnan that has established a brand in the Hong Kong market." Regarding how to promote high-quality coffee Yunnan coffee with high production volume has left the mountains and gone global. Zhang Ruilian, executive director and president of Hong Kong Qixin Foundation and president of Circle Media Co., Ltd., believes that Yunnan coffee still has a way to go in terms of standardization, packaging design and marketing, while Hong Kong It can help Yunnan take this journey well, and use Yunka to describe the win-win story of Yunnan and Hong Kong.
Unique resource advantages, development advantages with huge potential, comprehensively improved business environment, and open and innovative investment policies... The five-day field trip left a deep impression on Hong Kong friends and further strengthened our roots in Yunling, The determination and confidence to develop the industry.
"The cooperation between Yunnan and Hong Kong has broad prospects and a promising future." "We are very much looking forward to entering Yunnan, investing in Yunnan, and making contributions to the development of Yunnan as a Hong Kong enterprise."... Everyone said that they would bring the results of this inspection back to Hong Kong and work with them. More entrepreneurs will share, and at the same time attract Hong Kong's advanced concepts, information, technology, capital, etc. to flow in, promoting Yunnan and Hong Kong to further realize resource sharing, mutual development, and mutual benefit.
Yunbao all-media reporter Zhang Xiaoyu
